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From: "Mortimer, Andy"
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To: Cygwin List <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: Make and javac compliler problem in bash
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:03:30 +0100
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Hi all,

Carl Thompson wrote:
> Woody Jin wrote:
> 
> > ...
> 
> > But a better way would be to resolve it within Cygwin.  By default,
> > any application that is not in cygwin may be considered as Windows
> > native application (WNA). So, when you launch WNAs, cygwin 
> can convert
> > the unix style directory to DOS style.  After the 
> conversion, pass the
> > converted MS-DOS style path to the WNA. I don't know why you think
> > that this is so impossible or so difficult.  It is just  putting the
> > gvim's functionality into Cygwin.
> 
> I like this idea, but I think this functionality would more 
> properly go into
> the BASH patches for Cygwin than in the Cygwin DLL itself.  
> [...]

Before taking this much further, please consider the essential difference between
  bash$ cmd /c dir
and
  bash$ cmd 'c:\' dir

;-)

Cheers,

Andy
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